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Infosys announced that it will recruit 35000 more people in a year. in which around 13000 employees will be for BPO Operations and the remaining people will be working in Infosys technologies and subsidiaries.

“We are going to add 35,000 more people next year, which includes 13,000 people for the BPO operations,” Infosys Chief Financial Officer V. Balakrishnan said.

In the last quarter (4th quarter) Infosys including its subsidiaries hired 10,676 employees for the year 2012; currently the total strength was 1, 49,994 as on March 31. Along with this announcement Infosys announced it results today and reported a 27.4% jump in overall net profit at Rs 2,316 crore in the fourth quarter of FY’12, as against Rs 1,818 crore in the fourth quarter of FY’11.

Apart from the Indian recruitment, they are planning to hire around 1,200 employees in the US. In the past 2 years, it hired 1,200 employees in the US each year.